The Poets and Painters Spoken Word and Graffiti Art Festival will be held at the Market Creek Amphitheater and Festival Park on Saturday, June 24, 2017. The venue is located at the Joe & Vi Jacobs Center, near the Euclid Avenue Transit Center and Market Creek Plaza. This free event will feature JCNIs artists-in-residence: spoken word artist Gill Sotu, and internationally recognized Writerz Blok graffiti artists Jose Venegas and Sergio Gonzalez. The festival includes spoken word slams, live performances of music and dance, a family storytelling stage, graffiti artists creating live murals, and hands-on workshops. The event will attract more than fifteen hundred attendees from the greater San Diego region and beyond.